Fellows
Fellows in Residence
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Dance
Sam Kim
Choreographer – United States
Sam Kim is an experimental choreographer, dancer and teacher who has been making and performing in dances for over two decades. She was born to Korean immigrants, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn. Sam has received multiple commissions from Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, Zenon Dance Company, The Chocolate Factory Theater, The Kitchen, PS122, New York Live Arts, Dance Theater Workshop and Highways Performance Space (LA), among many others, to make and present her body of work.
Sam looks forward to the premiere of her latest work, The Fall, at The Chocolate Factory Theater in fall 2025. Inspired by her recent works, Procession and Angle of Incidence, as well as American Ninja Warrior and The Olympics, The Fall will traffic in high-stakes athletic action and scrutiny to make visible the shape and force of human will.
Film/Video
Lynn Tomlinson
Director and animator, Associate Professor of Electronic Media and Film, Towson University – United States
Lynn Tomlinson is an internationally acclaimed animator based in Baltimore, Maryland. Her current work explores environmental themes, often imagining how non-human beings might view humanity's impact. Her films have screened at venues including the Museum of Modern Art, The National Gallery (USA), The Pompidou Center, and at international film festivals including Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Ottawa International Animation Festival. She is Associate Professor of Electronic Media and Film at Towson University (USA).
During her residency, Lynn Tomlinson will draw inspiration from the natural setting on the Italian coast to animate cyclical sequences for an ecological media artwork using colorful transforming visual imagery, music, and poetic lyrics. Animated cycles will create a musical canon-like composition of scenes that loop and build, imagining non-human perspectives, and evoking ecological empathy.
Humanities Scholarship
Carla Macchiavello
(Visual Arts Scholarship) – Associate Professor of Art History, Music and Art, CUNY – Chile/United States
Carla Macchiavello Cornejo is an art historian and educator whose research centers on Latin American contemporary art with a decolonial approach; networks of solidarity and resistance against fascist, patriarchal, and colonial systems of power; and creative practices and pedagogies aimed at social and environmental change. She is coeditor of the periodical Más allá del fin for the collective research practice Ensayos, and the books Turba Tol Hol-Hol and Dismantling the Nation. Contemporary Art in Chile.
Carla will be working on a monograph on the artistic production of Patricia Saavedra involving the defense of human rights during the military dictatorship in Chile and the creation of transnational networks of solidarity and environmental advocacy focused on Rapa Nui. She will be critically examining Saavedra’s work in tandem with the cultural revitalization movements of the island while reckoning with Chile’s fraught colonial history.
Upcoming Fellows
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Dance
Nichole Canuso
Choreographer – United States
Nichole Canuso’s dedication to dance manifests as performances, installations, films and intimate dialogues. Her projects often use technology to bring performers and audiences together in tender exchanges. Her work has been awarded fellowships (Pew fellow 2017; New York Stage & Film fellow 2021) and presented nationally (New York Live Arts, American Repertory Theater, Los Angeles Performance Practice) and internationally (Hungary, Mexico, Poland, Sweden, Italy, Czech Republic).
While in residence Nichole will be developing Lunar Retreat, a multi-sensory, interactive performance installation. Named after the slow, rhythmic inevitability of the growing distance between the earth and the moon, Lunar Retreat explores our individual and communal experiences of the cycles of caretaking, loss and transformation. Choreographic prompts on headphones will guide participants into a labyrinthine performance experience in which they can explore and reflect both alone and together.
Film/Video
Tamar Baruch
Filmmaker – Israel
Tamar Baruch is a filmmaker born in 1987 in Haifa, Israel. Drawing on her experience as a first-generation immigrant of Tunisian and Iranian descent, she directs her films towards critical human-rights issues, with a particular focus on refugee narratives. Baruch received an M.A. in Documentary Film from NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, where she was a Fulbright fellow, and a B.F.A. in Film from Tel-Aviv University's Steve Tisch School of Film and York University's Film Department.
Tamar Baruch will be working on a new feature-length film set in Senegal. The story centers on a love affair between a French activist and a Senegalese fisherman. The couple migrates to France in hopes of starting a life, but once in France, they struggle to belong. Through this film, Baruch aims to examine the enduring effects of colonialism on Senegalese and French societies, exploring the dissonance and struggle faced by characters caught between different cultural, political, and social worlds.
Humanities Scholarship
Milena Anfosso
(Classics) – Author and Scholar – United States/Italy
Milena Anfosso (PhD, Sorbonne University) has held research appointments at Harvard University and UCLA. Multilingual herself, she has published and lectured on multilingualism in Antiquity, focusing on linguistic interactions among different populations in Anatolia between the 2nd and 1st millennium BCE, with a particular interest in ancient curses and black magic. Additionally, Milena has worked on Calabrian dialectology and folklore. Based in Los Angeles, she has served as a linguistic consultant in the entertainment industry and is currently co-authoring a YA fantasy novel.
At Bogliasco, Milena will work on her monograph exploring Timotheus of Miletus’s language in the Persians (late 5th-century BCE), a complex piece of Greek literature that narrates the Battle of Salamis (480 BCE) from the Persians’ perspective. Using her extensive knowledge of Ancient Greek, Phrygian, Lydian, and Old Persian, Milena explains Timotheus’s unusual linguistic choices in terms of sociolinguistic mimesis. She also discusses the strategies that he used to convey the 'otherness' of his characters in comparison with other ancient authors and in the frame of so-called 'New Music.'